O esporte na consolidação e propagação do espírito Esaviano

Abstract

This dissertation is placed in the area of the History and Historiography of the Education, it contemplates the history of the teaching institutions with the purpose of analyzing the function of the sport in the consolidation and propagation of the Esaviano Spirit in the High School of Agriculture and Veterinary (ESAV), located in Viçosa/MG, that later on became Federal University of Viçosa (UFV). The Esaviano Spirit and the sport are the themes of this dissertation. The research confirmed the existence of some practices - general meetings, publication of newspapers, accomplishment of parties and incentive to the sport - as form of materializing the Esaviano Spirit in the institution - an invented tradition - looking to homogenize the different speeches and existent actions in that academic middle. The accomplishment of the research served of documental sources - newspapers of the time - Reviewed Seiva , Newspaper O Bonde and Newspaper of Viçosa ; historical documents - books of 1939, proceedings, statute, regulations of the institution; literature of the area; and images, mainly pictures. The sources indicate that the institution was born amid a big cultural diversity, due to presence teachers, students and employees of several parts of Brazil and of the exterior. With that cultural diversity, we have different behaviors, habits, aspirations, actions, virtue. That ESAV engaged in the task of creation of a unit feeling, identity. It was evident that the intention of the institution, at the beginning, was not the formation of a national identity, but the creation of the identity place, institutional identity, so that students, teachers and other employees contributed with the best than they could to enlarge the name of ESAV. It is in that context that Esaviano Spirit function in the institution was developed: to form souls esavianas. The Esaviano Spirit diffused for the institution with the function of forming morally everybody that were part of the School, spreading virtue - such as solidarity, love to the institution, honesty, leadership, humility - that constituted in bases for the formation that the institution believed to be important for the professional that was being prepared. The sport came to contribute for the popularization of that spirit, however nor all the sporting practices were aligned with the objectives of the institution. I found 3 groups of physical activities in the institution: Modern sport, Modern Games and Traditional Games, and the ones that occupied prominence place were those that more they approached of the modern virtue longed for by the School, once the same appears to be symbol of progress in the agrarian area. Thus, the modern sports were the most motivated and practiced in the institution; proceeded by the modern games, which were used to rest the students of the intellectual work that the institution transmitted through the disciplines of the curriculum. The popular games didn't find its place for they be practiced, being for restricted a lot of time to the recreational activities during the national holidays; already the bad luck games were prohibited by regulation, probably for inciting the fraud that was not part of the virtue longed for by the School. However, in elapsing of the research it is patent that the Sport and the Esaviano Spirit didn't act separately, but existed a relationship between those two. Virtue as cooperation, honesty, leadership, defense of the colors of the institution, they were virtue that passed through the discussions found in the sources, be when they refer to Esaviano Spirit, be when they refer to the Sport, strengthening the actions and aspirations of the esavianos in the consolidation of the institution.